Book Information

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 978-1-5261-5124-7

Pages: 360

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Price: £25.00

Published
Date: November 2020

BIC Category: European Politics, HISTORY / Holocaust, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Europe / General, Humanities / The Holocaust, Spanish Civil War, Humanities / Second World War, Humanities / European history

Description

This landmark book, the product of years of research by a team of two dozen historians, reveals that resistance to occupation by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the Second World War was not narrowly delineated by country but startlingly international. Tens of thousands of fighters across Europe resisted 'transnationally', travelling to join networks far from their homes. These 'foreigners' were often communists and Jews who were already being persecuted and on the move. Others were expatriate business people, escaped POWs, forced labourers or deserters. Their experiences would prove personally transformative and greatly affected the course of the conflict. From the International Brigades in Spain to the onset of the Cold War and the foundation of the state of Israel, they played a significant part in a period of upheaval and change during the long Second World War.

Editors

Robert Gildea is Professor of Modern History at Worcester College at the University of Oxford

Ismee Tames is Arq Professor History of Resistance in Times of War and Persecution at Utrecht University, and Programme Leader for War and Society at the NIOD Insitute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam